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Upwork helps you find the right talent to get work done your way: post jobs, buy fixed-rate projects, get consultations, or work with specialized recruiters for help filling key roles on your team. It’s built for projects of all sizes, budgets, and ambitions — so you’ll have the right hiring solution faster than you can say “work awakening” (and not just because it’s kind of a long word.)

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Lifted

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Lifted, a subsidiary of Upwork Inc., is a comprehensive platform designed to assist enterprises in sourcing, contracting, managing, and paying global contingent talent efficiently and compliantly. Launched in August 2025, Lifted addresses the complexities of modern workforce management by offering a unified solution that integrates seamlessly into existing enterprise ecosystems. Key Features and Functionality: - Unified Talent Management: Lifted provides a contract- and country-agnostic platform that consolidates the management of various contingent workforce models, including independent contractors, agent of record (AOR), employer of record (EOR), staff augmentation, and statement of work (SOW) engagements. - Seamless Integration: The platform integrates effortlessly with existing contingent workforce programs by partnering with managed service providers (MSPs) and vendor management systems (VMS), ensuring a smooth transition and operation within current infrastructures. - Global Compliance and Payment Infrastructure: Lifted offers automated classification backed by experts and a robust payment system that supports every contingent workforce model, ensuring compliance across different jurisdictions and contract types. - Access to Extensive Talent Pool: Leveraging Upwork's marketplace, Lifted provides enterprises access to a vast pool of over 250,000 AI experts globally, enabling companies to find and engage top-tier talent across more than 10,000 skill areas. Primary Value and Solutions Provided: Lifted empowers enterprises to scale their contingent workforce efficiently without compromising on quality or compliance. By offering a comprehensive, tech-enabled platform, Lifted addresses the challenges of managing complex, compliance-driven workforce models. It eliminates the traditional trade-offs between flexibility and compliance, speed and scale, or digital ease and enterprise rigor. With Lifted, companies can navigate the complexities of modern workforce management, ensuring visibility, control, and compliance across borders, classifications, and procurement models.

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Amos Gabriel Odhiambo (Amos) O.
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Amos Gabriel Odhiambo (Amos) O.
06/15/2026
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Consistent Updates and a Clear, Insightful Dashboard

Constant and consistent updates. Good monitoring and payment of the engaged expert. Summary of information that appears on the dashboard.
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06/12/2026
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Easy-to-Use Platform with Great Professionals

First of all, it’s a very easy-to-use, user-friendly platform, and I can find great professionals here to meet my work needs. It is easy to pay and contact the professionals.
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06/11/2026
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Plenty of Opportunities and Strong Payment Protection, But Connects Feel Pay-to-Play

What I appreciate most about Upwork is the sheer volume and variety of opportunities in one place. Whatever your skill set, there are clients posting jobs daily, from quick fixed-price tasks to long-term contract. So the opportunity is genuinely there, even if competition is fierce. I also rate the payment protection model highly. Escrow for fixed-price work and hourly protection mean that when you do land a job, you're not chasing a stranger across the internet for your money. A real concern for freelancers working with overseas clients. The profile system is solid too: it lets you present your skills, portfolio, and work history professionally in a way that builds credibility over time, which matters when you're starting from zero.

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What is Upwork Inc.?

Upwork Inc.’s (Nasdaq: UPWK) family of companies connects businesses with global, AI-enabled talent across every contingent work type including freelance, fractional, and payrolled. This portfolio includes the Upwork Marketplace, which connects businesses with on-demand access to highly skilled talent across the globe, and Lifted, which provides a purpose-built solution for enterprise organizations to source, contract, manage, and pay talent across the full spectrum of contingent work. From Fortune 100 enterprises to entrepreneurs, businesses rely on Upwork Inc. to find and hire expert talent, leverage AI-powered work solutions, and drive business transformation. With access to professionals spanning more than 10,000 skills across AI & machine learning, software development, sales & marketing, customer support, finance & accounting, and more, the Upwork family of companies enables businesses of all sizes to scale, innovate, and transform their workforces for the age of AI and beyond. Since its founding, Upwork Inc. has facilitated more than $30 billion in total transactions and services as it fulfills its purpose to create opportunity in every era of work.

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2015
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NASDAQ: UPWK
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www.upwork.com